phylogenetically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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"This phenomenon is now being described for the first time in detail for phylogenetically closely related animal species," he continues.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
A 2016 article in the paper Frontiers in Neuroscience found that pinniped vocalizations are phylogenetically much closer to humans than to birds, and that they are indeed more vocally flexible than primates.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2022
They span 15 phyla, ranging from microscopic, barely multicellular blobs to 130-foot-long tapeworms snuggly coiled inside whale guts—species as phylogenetically different from one another as humans are from insects and jellyfish.
From Scientific American ● May 18, 2022
To test whether commensal spore formation facilitates long-term environmental survival, we exposed a phylogenetically diverse selection of commensal spore-forming and non-spore-forming bacteria and C. difficile to ambient oxygen for increasing periods of time.
From Nature ● May 3, 2016
This also applies originally to the primary muscles of the limbs, as these too belong phylogenetically to the hyposoma.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
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